I wrote recently about states who (with the support, natch, of inexplicable NARAL endorsee Joe Lieberman) allow people to buy anti-choice license plates, with the proceeds going to nearly worthless (and intentionally obstructionist) "crisis pregnancy centers," but do not offer the same option to pro-choice...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Now that's the old-school Wrigley Field. But what's the deal with the game starting at 6? Of course, missing the first two innings worked out well, but...
Remember when James Lileks gave an obscene, definitively chickenhawkish ("from my home in suburban Minnesota, I feel comfortable lecturing you for your unwillingness to engage in a suicidal revolutionary mission.
Echidne, Steve and Mahablog have already effectively covered this Times story about a new government study about public and private schools. There are two stories here: 1)the differences between the two are modest, and public schools actually outperform conservative Christian schools in many respects, and...
I certainly don't have any, so I direct you first to this post by Hilzoy, which does the exceptionally useful job of laying about the underlying facts and dilemmas in.
The Reverend William Lawson takes the conservative victimization ball and runs it well past the point of pure moral idiocy:Lawson likened Lay to James Byrd, a black man who was.
As a follow-up to my previous posts about Georgia's attempt to pass an unconstitutional voting law, the federal courts have blocked enforcement of Georgia's new attempt at vote suppression electoral reform. The argument seems to be that the new law is no longer a patently...
Once you boil off the contempt for women so surprising in an argument from the forced pregnancy lobby (besides, everyone knows that the most common reason for obtaining an abortion.
Not being a lawyer myself, I am free to fully endorse this method of opinion writing. Sample:Before proceeding further, the Court notes that this case involves two extremely likable lawyers,.
The comment thread to this post compels me to add a couple of additional points: Pithlord's slippery slope arguments about the consequences of not providing funding to Catholic hospitals that deny contraception is, I think, specious even by the standards of the genre (at least...
Connoisseurs of world-class, 5-star wingnuttery will be pleased to note the return of Alec Rawls and his lunatic obsession with the shape that hates America. Oh yeah, that's the stuff....and,.
"Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'."I recently took in the new film about the great songwriter (and alma mater of Canada's.